131100024 Class A Metaphor‚ reality or illusion? ——A Book Review on The Hunger Games The Hunger Games‚ which is considered as the best science fiction of the American writer Suzanne Collins‚ won the first place of The New York Times best-seller list. The book‚ which is “brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced1”‚ is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen‚ who volunteers to participate in the Hunger Games‚ a fight to the death on live TV and has no choice but to make her own choice
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Imagine being a teenager that has been forced to have the responsibility of protecting their whole family‚ but one day‚ their entire life gets altered into having to murder other children for survival; this is the fate of tributes of the Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games‚ Suzanne Collins illustrates a desolate world where survivors of the post-apocalyptic continent of Panem segregate into twelve separate districts and tasked with specific responsibilities of harvesting the Earth’s remaining natural resources
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In the Hunger Games‚ there are many class distinctions between the tributes‚ their districts‚ and‚ of course‚ the oppressive Capitol. In multiple places we can see the class distinctions made clear by Suzanne Collins. You may be wondering what “classes” there might be in the Hunger Games‚ or what even a “class” is. The “classes” that I am talking about are the groups or types of people there are in Panem and how this affects the plot events of the story. In the following paragraphs there will be
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Author’s craft is used alot in books and novels but in the book Hunger Games by ‘Suzanne Collins‚’ she uses a lot of different author’s craft. There is a lot of foreshadowing‚ symbolism‚and cliffhangers just to name a couple. There were a few that stood out among the others when reading Hunger Games. The reader may notice point of view‚ mood‚ dialogue‚and flashback they are all used quite frequently in the book likely the main ones in the book. The first one that will be discussed is point
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The Hunger Games & The Republic The Hunger Games is a book by Suzanne Collins‚ which is narrated by a sixteen year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in a dystopian post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol‚ a highly advanced metropolis‚ exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in
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Power in The Hunger Games Professor Kenneth Wong G15 Dorothy SIOK Li Phing LIU Zhe LIN Feng Ian Nicolette CHEN Lixin TAN Yan Zhen 1 1 Introduction 2 The Ethics of Power 2.1 How Power is Obtained and Maintained The Hunger Games is a dystopian
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The setting in the Hunger Games by Gary Ross is a very interesting one. There is massive contrast between the capitol and District 12 is very vast and different. The whole setting gives me a WWII vibe. District 12 being very dreary and poor‚ there are woman doing laundry in big tubs and old men eating chicken bones. They have to hunt for their own food and sell it and also crops are sold. They are the poorest district‚ their reputation is for mining and coal. The bland colours and dirt roads with
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Have you ever heard the game that you need to fight for life? The game is called Hunger Games‚ from every districts one male and female from the age 12-18‚ they get picked by draw lots and you can also volunteers for somebody. After you get picked up‚ you go to the Capitol and fighting for life and everyone is watching you until the one survivor left. On the game‚ there is going to be 24 tributes from 12 districts‚ so this is the hunger games and the story will start. In this story‚ there is a
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Osamudiamen Evbuomwan-Owa Dr. Eppich-Harris Written Analysis of Literature 1 April 2012 Review of The Hunger Games Movie I thought that The Hunger Games movie was overall an “ok” film with just the right amount of special affects and action sequences to complement a decent story. The director and producers stuck very close to the book as far as the story goes. This explains why the movie runs for over two hours. Although the events were very accurate‚ there were certain things that were not
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The reaping is a gathering that takes place in all twelve districts to choose one boy and one girl to compete in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a competition between all twelve districts. In which‚ the boy and girl in the same district work together to eliminate the boys and girls from a different district. The twenty-Four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena and must fight to the death. Children are eligible to be chosen when they turn twelve years old. Their names are entered
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